Mineral decline due to modernization of food habits.

Christiani Jeyakumar Henry, Xinyan Bi, Joseph Lim, Evelyn Lau

Food chemistry 2016 Jan 1

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Calcium and other micronutrients are essential for health and well-being. Dairy products are the main sources of calcium in western countries. In most regions of Asia, the consumption of these products is limited due to the lactose intolerance and costs. A major contributor to the micronutrients intake in this region is the consumption of small fish, such as anchovies. Traditionally, dried anchovies are consumed as a whole body. Recently, an increasingly popular method of eating anchovies has been to eat it in a cleaned, eviscerated form. This brief communication highlights how "modernization" of food habits may have unintentional nutritional consequences. A minor change in the dietary habits of eating cleaned anchovies may lead to a reduction in micronutrients intake. This reinforces the need for caution when we modernize our traditional eating habits. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Christiani Jeyakumar Henry, Xinyan Bi, Joseph Lim, Evelyn Lau. Mineral decline due to modernization of food habits. Food chemistry. 2016 Jan 1;190:194-6